Optical

Ayar Labs, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, raised an additional $25 million in Series C1 funding, for its work in silicon photonics for chip-to-chip connectivity. Ayar Labs uses...

China-based Blovelight has partnered with SABIC on an integrated, single-mode fiber optic lens array for optical transmission applications. The design uses SABIC’s ULTEM resin to mold an integrated connector and...

The Broadband Forum will develop a new specification for ONU authentication in virtualized services. Conventionally, ONU authentication is carried out solely by the operator’s Optical Line Terminals (OLTs), however, as...

Hawe Telekom, a wholesale carrier based in Poland, completed a live network trial of Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent solution. In the trial, which was conducted on Hawe Telekom’s Warsaw-Poznan-Frankfurt route,...

Liberty Networks is using Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent solution to upgrade and expand the capacity of its Florida Transport Network (FTN). This network enhancement enables Liberty Networks to offer new...

OneLight Sensing, a start-up based in San Jose, California, appointed Rear Admiral (Ret) Christian “Boris” Becker as President of the company. Becker completed his 30-plus year career in the U.S....

 Great Plains Communications (GPC), which operates a privately-owned 16,500+ mile fiber network reaching 13 states, is deploying Ciena's Coherent Routing solution and WaveLogic 5 Nano (WL5n) to:  support 5G and...

Arelion has deployed a new fully diverse, high-capacity route from Reston, VA down the U.S. East Coast, connecting directly to the Telxius cable landing station in Virginia Beach, then continuing...

MOX Networks will be deploying Ciena’s 6500 flexible grid Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) photonic layer with WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) coherent optics to enable multi-terabit capacity on its dark...

Infinera and Sumitomo Electric completed the first testing of point-to-multipoint coherent pluggable transceiver technology in Japan. The XR optics point-to-multipoint integration testing , which was conducted in Infinera’s Tokyo lab...

Windstream Wholesale introduced a "Regional Rapid Fiber" wavelength service based on 400G ZR+ pluggables. The service offers point-to-point connections within multiple regional sites across Windstream’s Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON)....

 Infinera achieved 61.3 terabits per second (Tbps) of unregenerated data transmission capacity on a fiber pair over a simulated intercity network trial for Telstra InfraCo’s intercity fiber project in Australia. ...

Padtec is supplying its DWDM equipment for a high-capacity network that runs along the bed of the Amazon river in the north of Brazil.  In the first phase of Norte...